My typical Xfce4 setup using one of the themes I've made for it:



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Still using MATE desktop. Rock solid Desktop Environment. Theme info is on the right side in terminal.
Was lazy to blur the GOL discord, but those are all public channels so it shouldn't be an issue



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My good old 7 year old distro, still going strong (sort of) :grin:

Quoting: Avehicle7887My good old 7 year old distro, still going strong (sort of) :grin:

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Race? :D Mine is over 11 years old :)

xpander@archlinux ~ $ grep -a -m1 filesystem /var/log/pacman.log 
[2013-01-21 17:45] installed filesystem (2012.12-1)

I admittedly can't quite match that:
[hamish@NERV ~]$ grep -a -m1 filesystem /var/log/pacman.log 
[2015-11-24 00:09] [ALPM] installed filesystem (2015.09-1)
[hamish@NERV ~]$ 

Rolling with openSUSE Tumbleweed!

Or rather .. tumbling? Okay, I'll show myself out.

I have a question: I like Tumbleweed, but I've always wondered: since rolling release distros are always on the cutting edge of (in this case) Gnome development, don't extensions break quite often, because they don't work with the newest Gnome version yet?
You seem to have several extensions running.

Quoting: DoctorJunglistRolling with openSUSE Tumbleweed!

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Breakage only happens on major GNOME release upgrades (eg GNOME 45 >>> GNOME 46), it generally doesn't happen on point releases (eg GNOME 46 >>> GNOME 46.1).

GNOME gets a new major release twice a year.

Whether one gets hit with breakage depends on various factors - how many extensions do they use, are the extensions still maintained (If they stopped being maintained, did someone else step in to do the work), how well are they maintained, did GNOME make some major changes that require a lot of work / time for an extension dev.

In part it also depends on a distro one uses - usually once a new major GNOME version releases, it usually takes some time for all the extensions to get updated, so If a distro someone uses gets the new GNOME release really early, chances are some of the extensions weren't yet updated.

Sometimes extensions keep working without having an additional update, and it's a matter of bypassing the compatibility check for a GNOME extension (you can do it globally for all extensions, or you can just edit the metadata.json file of a particular extension, and add in the number of the current GNOME version to bypass it that way).

This recent upgrade to GNOME 47 was particularly smooth, and all my extensions worked, albeit for some of them I had to install a github release (they weren't yet published on the GNOME extensions website), and for a few of them I had to edit metadata.json and add "47" to the list of GNOME versions.

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Thanks for the long answer! I was asking because I've returned to Tumbleweed on my laptop and I was wondering about whether to use extensions. I quite like the vanilla Gnome experience, the only thing I really need are the AppIndicators in the top panel, for Steam and some other apps.

Quoting: DoctorJunglistBreakage only happens on major GNOME release upgrades (eg GNOME 45 >>> GNOME 46), it generally doesn't happen on point releases (eg GNOME 46 >>> GNOME 46.1).

GNOME gets a new major release twice a year.

Whether one gets hit with breakage depends on various factors - how many extensions do they use, are the extensions still maintained (If they stopped being maintained, did someone else step in to do the work), how well are they maintained, did GNOME make some major changes that require a lot of work / time for an extension dev.

In part it also depends on a distro one uses - usually once a new major GNOME version releases, it usually takes some time for all the extensions to get updated, so If a distro someone uses gets the new GNOME release really early, chances are some of the extensions weren't yet updated.

Sometimes extensions keep working without having an additional update, and it's a matter of bypassing the compatibility check for a GNOME extension (you can do it globally for all extensions, or you can just edit the metadata.json file of a particular extension, and add in the number of the current GNOME version to bypass it that way).

This recent upgrade to GNOME 47 was particularly smooth, and all my extensions worked, albeit for some of them I had to install a github release (they weren't yet published on the GNOME extensions website), and for a few of them I had to edit metadata.json and add "47" to the list of GNOME versions.

skittered back to an ubuntu-based distro after suffering a catastrophic failure on fedora. yippeeeeeeeeeee

Everything still going smoothly on my Tumbleweed install. I absolutely adore this distro.

Forgot November, here we go. Still rolling Aeon Desktop.




and my Laptop. Both are my daily drivers.




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Old wallpaper I had to look for again after watching console modding videos. it's neat

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Old wallpaper I had to look for again after watching console modding videos. it's neat

That wallpaper is lit!

Posting for November before I forget:

December, after an initial heart attack that my 11yo Laptop might have died this week (thank fully it didn't) here are a fresh set of screenshots:







Still not sure what was up with my Laptop. It suddenly woke up to a Kernel Panic from Standby and afterwards wasn't able to find any internal storage devices. First I assumed the SSD might have died but it worked fine with a SATA to USB adapter on my PC and also my Laptop was able to boot from it using the USB workaround.
Swapping the device back in resulted in no bootable media found again. Hence I assumed some internal chip might have died. But all out of the sudden, a good puff later and re-insterting the SATA SSD once more all good ... still a little bit worried though. :sad:

December background. brrr it's cold

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Bit the bullet early and decided to just move for good to a Qt environment (LXQt) since I was already building on practically nothing with IceWM. Not a huge fan of GTK's direction in the last few years and been looking to move to Qt for a long time anyway. Finally got the system set up for good and working on tweaking together a theme as I go. Long live Qt

Sorry i have to ask , who is the girl in the photo ?
I've seen her before on a couple of other sites , wierdly when discussing Linux desktops :huh:

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Bit the bullet early and decided to just move for good to a Qt environment (LXQt) since I was already building on practically nothing with IceWM. Not a huge fan of GTK's direction in the last few years and been looking to move to Qt for a long time anyway. Finally got the system set up for good and working on tweaking together a theme as I go. Long live Qt

Sorry i have to ask , who is the girl in the photo ?
I've seen her before on a couple of other sites , wierdly when discussing Linux desktops :huh:

Not 100% sure but a reverse image search revealed her as "Ms. Size Doesn't Matter the Clown" https://x.com/mssdmtc/status/1723906577088884907

Tbh until now I just thought it was a drawing by @chaussettes :grin: